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Page 41
... tion to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject , thus originally ...
... tion to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject , thus originally ...
Page 89
... tion attained the full mastery of his own . He would have wanted little help from books , had he retained the power of perusing them . But while his greater designs were advancing , having now , like many other authors , caught the love ...
... tion attained the full mastery of his own . He would have wanted little help from books , had he retained the power of perusing them . But while his greater designs were advancing , having now , like many other authors , caught the love ...
Page 278
... tion was rather useful than entertaining . He declares of himself that he was saturnine , and not one of those whose ... tion disconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exer- tion , and suffers them not to speak till the time ...
... tion was rather useful than entertaining . He declares of himself that he was saturnine , and not one of those whose ... tion disconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exer- tion , and suffers them not to speak till the time ...
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